Check Your Mail Boxes For "THE STICKERS" Red, Blue, Yellow

I heard those rumors too, I wonder what about those of us who don't have a mailbox though? I have a post office box.. lol

Was it plastic, kind of reflective? I found a yellow one on my mailbox. Some of my neighbors had white ones. Doesn't seem to correlate with newspaper delivery. I checked with the city, and the didn't put them there.

It was thicker than regular paper, like plastic and it was reflective as well as my neighbors. It took my pocket knife to peel it off.

I live on a dead end street, and all of these stickers are facing the opposite direction of incoming traffic. I don't see how they'd be useful for newspaper delivery, unless the driver drives down the wrong side of the street and wings them out the window left handed while steering. Doesn't make sense.

I don't have a mail box, where will they put my red sticker?

I got a hold of the town clerk today and asked if the mail service places these dot's on the Boxes and she said this "It is believed to be a mail service sticker" but for what?

That's a good question. I looked that angle up online before, and I thought I found that it wasn't the post office doing it. I'll have to ask them. If it had something to do with mail, why wouldn't all of the boxes have them? I can tell you that I got one of those census long forms in 2010, and I refused to answer all the questions. I had people from the census bureau coming to my house and leaving business cards for almost two YEARS badgering me to 'complete' the form. Wouldn't surprise me if I were identified as a troublemaker then.

Guess I need to go check on that....

thats awesome, i refused the census takers as well!( 71cuda)

Yeah, those bastards were persistent. Before I could stop her, my wife answered a lot of their questions and they STILL wanted more. I felt it wasn't any of their damn business how may toilets I had, how much money I made, or how far I drive to work. I answered the door one day and told them I had no intention of cooperating further. I STILL found their business cards on my door.

My drive is about 500 ft long thru the woods and has a gate that stays locked - if you want to come in you better have my cell number. Anyway a strange thing happened this past spring. My mailbox is the standard metal kind on a pole by the road. I repaint it every couple of years to keep the elements at bay and to keep it looking nice.
When I took the box off of the pole (so I could paint the underside as well, lo and behold underneath at the front where the door is was a small plastic encased RFID chip with a self adhesive back.
Keep in mind I have painted this box before and it wasn't there.

I think its the newspaper guy. Weekend, Weekday, Everyday or No delivery sort of system.

The NSA/CIA has way better tracking methods.

Tomorrow I suspect you'll be questioning wheren' the Hell's the Paperboy!

Or wondering why your Being asked into a School Bus.

Its 50/50.

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I helped my boys long ago deliver a free paper. Came 2 days a week and on Sunday. The paper people had put those there, and we had to update them, such as if someone new moved in and wanted only Sunday, and the previous resident had all week, it would change colors.
One color for weekday delivery, one color for Sunday only, and one color for every edition.

Don't remember the colors, it was back in 1998 or so. This could be one explanation.

Now, the rfid thing is pretty damn freaky.

I worked a newspaper route before. Like the other posters have said, it's the newspaper courier putting the stickers on the boxes.

I never used all of the colors, just red and green, but the pack also came with yellow/orange, blue and white/silver. Green is supposed to mean that you get a newspaper all through the week and weekend. Red means you've cancelled your newspaper.

If you haven't cancelled your newspaper recently, but did, at one point in time, have a newspaper delivered, you're probably still on their "route list" which does not get updated often. There was probably a new courier that got confused by it, so they put up a red dot to remind themselves. This is what happened to me; cancelled subscribers still being on the route list.

The stickers are reflective because they need to spot your box while driving at night, this is to avoid missing your box and not having to read your address every night.

The routes change often. People subscribing (green, yellow/orange, blue and white/silver) and people unsubscribing (red) all the time. The newspaper company offered different packages: All week, just the weekend, just the weekdays and just for Sundays (because that's where all the coupons are). Each package has it's own sticker color.

If you've never subscribed to a newspaper, then you should probably worry (unless you recently moved there and the previous owners were subscribers). I've only known magazines to come through the post office, not personal courier services.

Aside from the post office, no other courier service is allowed to put things in your mailbox. FedEx, UPS, Newspapers... none of them are allowed to put anything inside of your mailbox. Only USPS mail. The USPS does not use stickers because everyone has a mailbox, not everyone gets the same mail and they do not deliver at night. So, it is not your post office putting the stickers on there (that would be a useless sticker system for them).

If your magazines are delivered inside of your mailbox and the magazines have a label on them with your address (sometimes on the back), then they were delivered to you via USPS. This rules out the magazine companies.

I hope I've helped. I rarely type up a comment on here... can you guess why?

I heard about that a while ago
Has been reported And pictures posted
It's a color code as to which list you are on
Has nothing to do with your mail or post office

I'd be interested to know you who got stickers which cities do you live

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002

designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.

It's just the newspaper deliveryman putting them there.

All perfectly innocent.

Shut up.

i have a friend on FB that posted about finding a sticker on his mailbox.someone else replied its from the POST OFFICE, he should know he works there, he said.
the guy mentioned the stickers being reflective so they could spot them easier at night.

i wrote back this has to be a lie, the post office doesnt deliver at NIGHT>
weve heard nothing more from that guy

Seriously pictures or BS flag.......I have seen this same type of BS subject about color tagging for FEMA camps.

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My Friend said he has a red sticker on His mailbox as well, He lives in Boston, Mass. Tomorrow I will ask the mail man the reason for the sticker. I asked the town clerk and she does not know. I then went to address of our town constable, he has a blue sticker.

I'm a USPS mail carrier in California about an hour north of L.A. I haven't heard or seen anything about these stickers.
If by chance they come out this way and it does have to do with the postal service, I'll post about them. Pretty strange.

Thanks man

Maybe it's to tell the FEMA bus driver what list people are on?

I used to have a blue sticker on my mailbox, I took it off and it got replaced with another one which I left on. I used to get newspaper delivery and cancelled about a year ago . So I went out to check just now and I no longer have a sticker on my mailbox. So the newspaper explanation sounds correct.

yes this....

Someone spray painted mine, along with other neighbors, a few years ago. What do the colors mean?

I got the newspaper before the sticker, and still get it after I took it off. So I'm not entirely convinced it's about newspapers, especially since the stickers in my town don't appear in every neighborhood. I see newspapers in yards without mailbox stickers. Not saying it couldn't be about newspaper delivery, but I'm not so sure.

Maybe it is about papers, maybe it's not. But I never get papers delivered to my house and I had a blue sticker on my box. It's been the for 3-4 years. Never knew how it got there, but removed it yesterday, along with some neighbors mailbox stickers that where yellow, green, pink amd white. Hadn't seen any red ones. Seen some boxes with nothing. Maybe they took there's off already or never had any, not sure. But out of all the stickers I did see mine was the only blue sticker and I don't het a paper. I live in SC.